The World Health Organization (WHO) is aware of a new variant of Covid-19 that has emerged in Britain, but there is no evidence the strain behaves differently to existing types...
The United States imposed long-anticipated sanctions on Turkey on Monday over Ankara’s acquisition of Russian S-400 air defence systems, further complicating already strained ties between the two NATO allies. Turkey...
Bangladesh Bridge Authority (BBA) has formed a committee to work on a new toll policy for the much-hyped Padma Bridge as the 6.15-km bridge has become visible with completion of...
A local startup has emerged as a global player in e-commerce solutions, making it a million-dollar company in a short span of time. weDevs, the software product service provider, is...
The growing demand for skilled labour and revised wage structure has lured male workers into joining the readymade garment (RMG) industry, which has decreased female participation ratio, according to a...
edotco Bangladesh, the leading regional integrated telecommunications infrastructure services company, has been awarded the prestigious ISO 9001:2015 accreditation by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) for its development, operation and,...
December 14, 2020: Smartphone manufacturer company Vivo this year focused on vivo V series phones. vivo started this year with the launch of V19, then V20 and next another star...
Less than 10 per cent of the rickshaw-pullers working and living in Dhaka city round the year have health cards to seek services from urban primary healthcare providers, reveals a...
New York on Monday inoculated its first healthcare worker, an intensive care unit nurse in Queens, with the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, marking a pivotal turn in the US effort to...
The 32nd Annual General Meeting of UCEP Bangladesh, a non-government organisation, was held on December 14 (Monday) at UCEP Bangladesh’s Head Office in Mirpur, Dhaka to elect the new Board...
Although winter is traditionally a jovial time in this summer-dominant land, it has its many woeful aspects. A few of them veritably blight the otherwise pleasant season. They appear in...
Knowledge as a concept can be defined in various ways. According to Albert Einstein knowledge is action. And it is pure information if not put into action. So, a person...
Two recent news items published and broadcast in the world media clearly give hints at the changes in some complicated human activities in the future. Most of these jobs are...
A Dhaka Court on Monday issued an ad-interim injunction till further order upon using a domain under the title of ‘facebook.com.bd’. Judge of the District and Sessions Judge’s Court of...
A 32-year-old Hafizur Rahman stabbed himself to death at the court premises in Habiganj, failing to get his wife and eight-month-old son back. The incident took place at the Habiganj...
The Directorate General of Drug Administration has withdrawn and destroyed date expired medicines from the market worth Tk 301.42 million of various drug companies from January to October this year...
The third phase elections to 64 municipalities of different districts will be held on January 30 as per the schedule announced by the Election Commission (EC) on Monday, reports UNB....
Awami League leader Tofail Ahmed on Monday said anti-liberation forces are hatching a conspiracy against sculptures. “Today the people of the country have become united against those who are hatching...
BNP on Monday strongly opposed the relocation of Rohingyas to Bhashan Char, saying it has manifested the government’s ‘limitless diplomatic and political failures’ to resolve the problem. In a press...
Construction of Padma Bridge is expected to generate welfare for the people of Bangladesh in general and the people of Southwest in particular. The benefits are expected to arise from...
Europe's drug regulator is under increasing pressure to quickly approve the COVID-19 vaccine developed by US giant Pfizer and Germany's BioNTech, officials said, as inoculations get started in Britain and...
Bangladesh is a strong advocate for the promotion of women, peace, and security agenda. The sexual violence that was inflicted on 200,000 of our women during our war of liberation...
Google services, including YouTube, Gmail and Google Drive, were restored for most users on Monday, following a global outage that affected thousands. Google's website that logs outages said the services...
As the second wave of Covid-19 has started affecting Europe and America, emerging economies like Bangladesh will also struggle and have to tackle a number of economic effects of the...
Google services, including Gmail, YouTube, and Google search, were down for millions of users across the world. Downdetector confirmed the outage saying that the issues started at around 11:56 GMT,...
Beximco Dhaka knocked Fortune Barishal out of the Bangabandhu T20 Cup on Monday at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium. Dhaka batted first after winning the toss and posted 150 for eight...
The election commission has scheduled the Chattogram City Corporation polls for January 27, after a delay of more than eight months due to the coronavirus pandemic. Md Alamgir, senior secretary...
Bangladesh has recorded 1,799 new cases of the coronavirus infection in a daily count, taking the tally of infections so far to 492,332, reports bdnew24.com. The death toll climbed to...
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has handed over four new ambulances and a COVID-19 sample collection van to Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BDRCS) to...
The government has appointed Shyam Sunder Sikder, a former secretary of the government, as the chairman of the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC). The Ministry of Public Administration issued a...
At least 116 physicians in Bangladesh died of Covid-19 so far with one more death on Monday, according to the Bangladesh Medical Association (BMA). Meanwhile, some 8,092 health workers so...
The government has selected 38 non-resident Bangladeshis (NRBs) to award commercially important person (CIP) status for their significant role in the country’s economy. The Ministry of Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas...
Stocks extended the winning streak for the fourth straight session on Monday as investors put a fresh stake on stocks amid growing confidence in the market. DSEX, the key index...
Another 250 kg bomb, believed to be dropped during the Liberation War in 1971, was recovered at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Monday. The airport authorities found the bomb...
A Bangladeshi painter has been sentenced to death for killing his Indonesian girlfriend in a Singapore hotel in 2018. Ahmed Salim, 31, had strangled domestic worker Nurhidayati Wartono Surata for...
Countries and regions around the world have recorded more than 72 million Covid-19 cases with over 1.61 million fatalities since it was first reported in China about a year ago,...
China warned its internet giants on Monday that it would not tolerate monopolistic practices and to brace for increased scrutiny, as it slapped fines and announced probes into deals involving...
The government has announced that the flights of airlines bringing passengers from abroad without COVID-negative certificates will be suspended for up to four weeks. “It is observed with great concern...
As part of celebrating ‘Mujib Centenary’ and the 49th victory day of Bangladesh, Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) recently organised a remarkable event to pay tribute to the ‘Freedom Fighter Trustees’...
Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh urged everyone to remain alert until the communal fundamentalist forces are completely wiped out. “We have seen that the communal...
It is often said that if you want to firm up your body, head to the gym, and if you want to exercise your brain, listen to music. In Bangladesh,...
At least 400,000 people have fled militant attacks in northern Mozambique, the United Nations refugee agency said, warning that the crisis could quickly spread beyond the country’s borders if regional...
A Chattogram court has sentenced eight people to death for their roles in the murder of a nine-year-old child after rape about three years ago. The verdict was passed by...
US Electors will gather in state capitols across the country on Monday to formally vote for Joe Biden as the next president, effectively ending President Donald Trump’s frenzied but failing...
British espionage writer John le Carré has died aged 89, following a short illness, his literary agent has said. The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, and Tinker, Tailor,...
Gadakhali and Panisara flower growers in Jashore’s Jhikargachha are ready with their produce as national events such as the Victory Day, 16 December, are now around the corner. On the...
A Chinese spacecraft carrying rocks and soil from the moon has begun its journey back to Earth, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Sunday, putting China on course to...
Cargo planes and trucks with the first US shipments of coronavirus vaccine fanned out from FedEx and UPS hubs in Tennessee and Kentucky on Sunday en route to distribution points...
US infrastructure giant Eleris Energy Ltd is keen to invest heavily in Bangladesh's solar and integrated LNG-based power sectors. The company intends to implement three mega solar power projects and...
President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina have paid their homage to the martyred intellectuals of 1971, as the nation observes Martyred Intellectuals Day, bdnews24.com reports. The Pakistan forces...
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